BooSwarm: What is it?

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   SallyCat on September 18, 2005 at 8:02 am

   Wow….what I miss sometimes…

   They mean by BooSwarm is that we are somehow organized so that if I get into an argument with someone at dKos then I will have supporters come in to back me up.

   BooSwarm = that’s what friends are for…..hmmmm…what kind of friends….?

   maybe people with high intelligence, a quick wit, and a very, very low tolerance for bullshit who gather together?

   It’s a little earlier here for the Midori…but how about some nice French Roast coffee with the swarm here at the frog pond?

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     Cali Scribe on September 18, 2005 at 1:43 pm

     too early for Midori… 🙂

     Sounds like a perfect after workout drink to me…but I could use the coffee to lure the spouse out of bed…

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   kansas on September 18, 2005 at 10:40 am

   A BooSwarm is a lot of Tribbers going down to Camp Casey together. It’s Tribbers working together to help out evacuees. It’s Tribbers traveling from all over the country to march together on the 24th. It’s the happy pile-on in the Froggy Bottom-Cafe every day and night. It’s the peaks in our traffic when stuff happens.

   BooSwarm! Get a Buzz On!

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   Knoxville Progressive on September 18, 2005 at 2:39 pm

   When I saw this I immediately thought of the old horror movie “Frogs.”

   Millionaire Jason Crockett (Ray Milland. No, really. Ray Milland) hates frogs. Naturally, he lives on an island estate in the middle of a big Southern swamp. His family also hates frogs, so much so that they clap their hands over their ears and scream about the horrible, horrible noise. Everybody joins in spraying toxic chemicals around, little realizing that these frogs are not just moist, they’re mad. Hopping mad. The family gathers for Grandpa’s annual birthday celebration, unaware that doom is hopping toward them on wet, flapping feet. The point is driven home with shot after shot of the frogs hopping… hopping… hopping… and occasionally being tossed by a helpful stagehand. Actually, the whole swamp is mad–snakes, snapping turtles, and even crocodiles- -which is really for the best because the only thing the frogs seem to have in the way of menace is that hopping thing. One by one, family members go flailing into the swamp, never to return, while those still in the house watch death hop closer. Frogs is almost as remarkable for the sartorial issues it brings up as the environmental ones. Why is everyone wearing sweaters with blazers in Florida in July? How did Joan Van Ark manage to find an outfit that combines the practicality of hot pants with the beauty of a terrycloth jumper? Will Ray Milland ever be able to get the slime off that bright white suit? And still, the frogs hop closer…

   The funniest thing is that the frogs themselves never actually kill anything, despite the movie poster of a human hand hanging out of the mouth of a big frog.  All the dirty work is done by the other creatures down in the bayou…

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     tauri on September 18, 2005 at 6:19 pm

     Oh, I will have to add this one to my movie list — I’d never heard of it and it sounds good.  Now who could hate a soft cute little amphibian, such noble creatures. They say amphibians are particularly susceptible to environmental changes because their skin is so permeable, it’s like they have no barriers between themselves and the world. There is something just so honest about that.